I hope this doesn't hurt anyone's feelings and that they are written in good faith.
1. Feminism. I support women and women's rights. But feminism is also double edge. For example, instead of women's virginity being placed on a pedastal, now women are expected to put out. Femenism freely brag about how feminists have lead to the sexual revolution, allowing men to get laid with abandon. But this means that women are the gatekeeper to sex. This leads to a situation where women feel forced to have sex before marriage by societal standards, even if they don't want to, because it's what's expected. A movement aimed at giving women more choice actually gives the same choice as before: no choice.
2. Maybe sex before marriage isn't good after all. People would laugh about that. Haha, no sex before marriage? Haha! Or whatever. But...I mean. Look at our generation. We are a loveless generation and those who are in love seem to be exceptions. Between things like tinder, we now have a situation where most dudes don't want to put a ring on it. Why bother if they can they can get it for free? We have cultivated a culture where people are expected to put out on date one. Where people are seen as nothing but outlets for pornographic desire. Where you have STI and pregnant scares. I feel awful for participating in it. Clearly, hook up culture isn't making us happier. It's so bad it's almost impossible to find an actual date, never mind that I'm already trans. I don't want to fuck them. But it's expressed that I should because that is expected. Why reject sex, after all. This also manifests in real harmful things like virginity. People are expected to lose it at a specific expiration date and you don't, you're a loser. We saw things like Atra chase the v card, an arbitrary thing that doesn't ultimately doesn't fucking matter and yet brought unjust stress.
I came to these conclusions by watching the LGBT community. Just recently, were only able to get married in all states. The sex is so rampant. I don't expect it not to be rampant any time soon. But it's just kind of expected. So you have a culture that is all about shallow hook ups. There's certainly relationships and love within the community. I've seen it myself. But the hookups? It's just business. And yet there's always sex involved with every fucking thing in the culture, which is expected but it gets too much at times. It feels so shallow. For this reason I didn't go to Pride this year.
3. I'm not sure about the science worship.i was always bad at sciences besides biology, which I was surprisingly amazing at. I struggled in high school and college in physics and chemistry like a confused leper. I worked hard to pass those classes and it meant staying after school a lot. So I won't claim to be an expert in the sciences. But it bemuses me how we now have a society that takes sciences word like gospel, when this approach betrays science. It's treating science like a religion without the philosophy or ecclesial or ontological processes. I find the atheist life style to be wanting. Maybe it's not for everyone. Maybe I'm projecting my own experiences towards everyone else but most atheists don't seem happy and we have a generation of mostly atheists. Many of whom support the prior two points brought up. Yet we have all this science and tech but no true answers and no one is happy. Maybe not being happy is part of the human condition. Maybe it's based on location? Maybe it's generational? I don't know. But it's not our generation, and while we've been dealt some really bad deals, it's hard to think we haven't helped contirubute to that pain and suffering by heedlessly buying into it. I support the sciences, but the science fetishism is confusing especially in light of criticisms aimed at religion. People say,"religion has done bad things" but science has done awful things as well. But for some reason it gets a pass.
Just some truly random thoughts. I hope they make sense and were written with clarity and respect.
